Name: Takahashi Mitsunobu 高橋光信 (Admiral Takahashi)

Age/Gender: 47 / Male

Rank/title: Admiral of Japan Royal Navy

Capabilities: Controls the military navy force. Able to work under pressure. Reached "3rd dan" which is the highest rank in Aikido.

Background: Just like every other royal citizen of the JRI, Mitsunobu wanted to serve his country. He enrolled in the military school at the age of 16, which was the minimum age requirement for someone to join the military force. He did his best in every practice and actual missions. Mitsunobu broke his left leg once during a practice, and rest for a year before going back to the normal routine. After his leg healed up, he took Aikido lessons from the local master. After years of great performance on every side, he was promoted to Admiral of the JRN.

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Name: Yokono Nichiren 橫尾陽子 (Dr.Yokono)

Age/Gender: 33 / Male

Rank/title: Lead Scientist of JRI

Capabilities: Dr.Yokono was described by his own co-workers as strong and skilled. A person who has what we called a "photographic memory." From a simple blueprint sketch to the highly complicated quantum theory research papers, there was no escaping his eyes. He can recite anything and everything perfectly that he saw with his own eyes like a piece of cake. Dr.Yokono was also very skilled in CQC and firearms, and he even led a few expeditions previously before he became one of the lead scientists.

Background: Yokono is a curious and adventurous person. He joined the military because he thought it was "fun and mysterious." When his family thought he was just fooling around, Yokono managed to get a perfect score in the J.U.M.B.E (Japan Unique Military Branches Exam) and the government offered him a position at the science and technology team. As an adventurous teenager at that time, he went for the special force to train himself up before going back and join the science team because he thought he already learned everything and he was not wrong.

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Name: Aragonaus

Rank/title: Alpha: strongest of the strong and leader



Capabilities: He is an unbeatable warrior able to fight any foe and because he is so strong he is considered a great leader for the pack and can lead his brothers and sisters into battle as he leads the charge. He is smart but that does not make him a great tactician.

Background: Aragonaus was born with a litter of his brothers and sisters to an alpha and their mate. He grew up learning to fight and hunt first along with his brothers and sister and he showed he had a high aptitude for battle and keen instincts. He kept fighting at a young age and learned how to fight the biggest and strongest of his kind and as he grew up a few of his brothers and sisters became alchemists while his sisters became shamans or mates to the betas. He however had a higher goal in mind, he challenged his father to be the alpha and the entire tribe came out to watch it as it was rare to see someone challenge an alpha. Aragonaus was a teenager but his father had aged of course they fought ferociously for 4 full days both were strong fighters and they kept slashing trying to get the best of one another but finally Aragaonaus won by performing the first move his father taught him as a child, a classic grapple move that flipped him onto his back and pierced his chest with his claws. His father died with a smile and his final words were "Bout time son" (translated from beast speech). The entire tribe howled loudly and celebrated the new alpha rising to power.

From that day onward Aragonaus proved himself time and time again hunting and protecting the tribe from threats until the event came that made them show a new world beyond their own...

Thw wolf father:
He is said to be the very first wolf who loved a human and helped in creating the first werewolf of their kind. His body has long since been gone into the earth but his ferocity was enough that the spirits gave him infinite life and charge him with protection of the sacred tree. He stands 10 feet tall much taller then any of the werewolves but it was believed that with his immortality came the powers of the spirits themselves making stronger, faster, and larger then any beast that would dare challenge him. The only voice that he will listen to is that of the earth mother. When in a desperate situation of being outnumbered he is able to split his being into 5 other wolves each one smaller and weaker of course but note then enough to challenge any beast.

Tree of the earth mother:
Said to harbor the very first earth spirit, it is said that all fairies that speak with the werewolves originated from her and her tree is known to be sacred. It is said that if the tree were to ever be destroyed the very forest itself would die. The tree itself stands talls and above all other trees making it viewable even at a large distance. The tree harbors the Earth mother and like the tree she is unable to move from where her tree is but her roots expand the entire forest to calm and help her children. She mashes all the spirits that live in her forest stronger and those that pick roots closer to her are much more potent

Pillar of Dynasty
The Pillar of Dynasty was built during the miniature golden age of Jollas, built by the legendary arcanist Urban the Warder. Urban was a elderly and powerful magi, who used magic and countless rituals to consecrate a great iron pillar in the king's favored garden, which became the Pillar's home. The Pillar is a hollow iron pillar on a marble stage, which amplifies magic around it to a powerful degree. The pillar is used to magnify rituals of mages, cast more powerful spells, and generate powerful focuses. The garden in which is held is closely guarded and walled off, only cultists of Kasta can enter along with the Chosen who live in the garden itself. The Pillar was used only twice, once to sink a pirate fleet threatening the city and another time to dispose of a powerful Wendigo which had tried to sneak into the garden to devour its magic.
The Chosen
The Chosen are a multi-raced group of warrior mages who guard the Pillar of Dynasty, loyal only to the royal family of Jollas. 90 members exist at a time, bearing white and yellow cloaks, and are trained in the arts of monster slaying, magic identification, and theological studies. Chosen are chosen at young ages to serve the order, and are trained ruthlessly to guard the Pillar. They are also trained in magic by a group of Magi who look over them. Chosen are not allowed to leave the garden, and are not allowed to interfere in the world outside it either for politics or for personal reasons. They are skilled swordsmen and highly competent war mages, given great armor and weapons to the best which their lord provides.

Faen (Fae)
Faen are forest beings who resemble upright women and men, having the body and faces of men, but the legs of a goat. They usually are known to have large goat horns and stink of nature. Faen are sentient, but are far closer to being magical beings who are bound to forests. Faen are fun loving creatures who enjoy playing, dancing, and striding through forests, but also they particularly interested in human interaction. However, their existence brings misery to those they interact with, often summoning wild animals with their wooden lutes, cursing those they befriend, and generally causing trouble to satisfy a prank. Commonly, Faen do not kill themselves, but lead others to their death with their dances, or even attempt to drive men mad with their playful nature. They can be killed like sentient creatures, but it is difficult to catch them, as they are very nimble and swift.
Leshari (Fae)
The Leshari, or tree men, are ancient beings who resemble old men with tree limbs for hands and legs, and who's bones are wooden. However, despite them looking like hermits, they are far from peaceful and take great offense to those who harm their woods. Leshari draw their power from placing sacred magical totems which enhance their powers over the woods, befriending the animals there and binding them to it's will. They can also command tree limbs and can suddenly disappear without warning. Typically, they are worshipped as forest spirits, and often demand of their worshippers that they respect it's domain or face its wrath. Leshari are natural enemies of the Wendigos, but are friends of the Faen, and often the presence of many Faen often means a Leshari is near by as well.
Wendigo (Fae)
Wendigos are monstrous horrors which dwell in the deep woods and near human settlements, created when a Faen eats the flesh of men and grows accustomed to it, they turn into monsterous stag beasts which seek out further flesh. The creatures resemble upright moose with claws for hands, and their chest and face has decayed rapidly into a skeletal figure. Wendigos are corrupters of forests, devouring animals and men alike in a desperate need for raw flesh to devour, killing and eating Faen as well. Wendigo claws can easily rend into the flesh of others, and are deviously very silent while hunting. Their remaining bones and skin is almost like steel, making them difficult to battle. Wendigos bring blights to the forests, corrupt animals into a mindless wage, and war with their natural enemies the Leshari for territorial dominance. Sometimes, a Wendigo is worshipped as a dark forest spirit, who 'blesses' its followers with children who are unnaturally strong but also driven to devour the flesh of others, sometimes growing stag horns upon their heads or become insane.
Lady (Fae)
Ladies are strange Fae figures which resemble beautiful, young, Jolfan women with overly long hair and a sickly greenish complexion. However, to most who know the signs, Ladies are very dangerous and very rare Fae entities in power in terms to Leshari and Wendigos. Ladies, also known as Forest Women, seduce men to their deep wood groves, and kill them in ritualistic sacrifice in order to 'empower' themselves, often exclaiming to do it to prevent them from becoming dead trees. Ladies are gifted enchanters, and dreaded cursers and can disappear at a whim, command forest animals to do their bidding, breath underwater, and can even charm darker creatures such as Leshari and Wendigos into their service. Typically, Souden worship these fae spirits as forest goddesses, who in turn grant them protection and enchanted (and also usually cursed) artifacts in return for sacrifices.
Umbra (Fae)
Umbras are powerful and benevolent fae spirits which dwell in the deep forests and often are fairly kind creature. They resemble large white stags who's fur glow white and have glowing light blue eyes, appearing only under moonlit nights and otherwise tend to live amongst deer herds. Umbras cannot speak, but tend to be very helpful, often offering their aid in driving out other Fae such as Ladies, Wendigos, and sometimes the Leshari. Umbras, like most Fae, can command other animals and the roots of trees, but are also implied to be able to summon storms as well. Umbras typically lead others to treasure and their tears grant enchantments of protection, which they often give willingly. Umbras however do become very hostile if they or their herds are attacked, and often avoid human settlements like a plague. It isn't uncommon for Umbras to keep and train wandering Beastfolk children into new generations of druids, but do not demand worship from them.
Ursa (Fae)
An Ursa is a unique forest Fae born from other animals, typically bears. Ursas are raised specifically and befriended by other higher fae creatures, typically a powerful Leshari, Reclaimer, or Lady. An Ursa are infused and grown with magic, becoming far larger and far stronger then their normal size, gaining a hyper intelligence, long life, and are ultimately bound to the will of a local Fae spirit. Not fully self aware of their purpose, an Ursa can often guard the tombs and groves of their masters for generations, but are very much autonomous like any other animal, and will mate to produce very strong children of their own (but no in the same strength of their own magically enhanced bodies). Sometimes, when more self aware, a Ursa can 'ascend' to become a higher Fae creature and drive away it's former master, becoming a passive entity. Ursas typically despise the destruction of their forests and will lash out violently at hostile intruders, but for those who offer their peace to an Ursa, they will often physically appear to attack the enemies. Ursas are especially hostile to Wendigos, and are often considered a physical match for them.
Reclaimer (Fae)
Very little is known about Reclaimers, outside being highly ritualistic and are born of endangered woodlands, being the arch rival to any would be loggers who try to destroy the deep forests. Reclaimers appear in the form of a upright skeletal stag with a robe of greenery and having 'flesh' made from animal pelts, wicker, and soggy leaves. Reclaimers are physically immortal, as their physical forms are secondary to their more terrifying spiritual forms. Reclaimers are deeply rooted in a variety of Fae magic, ranging from devastating curses to conjuring powerful hordes of animals to tear apart their foes. Reclaimers, as the name suggests, 'reclaim' lands taken by humanoid settlement through violence. Most disturbingly however, a reclaimer will 'reclaim' the corpses of humanoids they kill, creating fleshy puppets made from living vines and tree branches which eventually return to it's lair to become trees and greenery. Reclaimers, unlike other Fae, will eventually disappear once the land they are born is either retaken by nature, but will continue to return until their spiritual body is destroyed.
Forestlings (Fae)
Forestlings are minor Fae which dwell near rural areas and distant villages, being often the products of a relationship between a Fae and a humanoid. Forestlings are perpetual children, looking, sounding, and thinking like common children but also remaining biologically immortal. Unlike their humanoid parents, a Forestling is bound to the forests and live within them. Forestlings typically have discoloration within their skin, will grow antlers, and are naturally on friendly terms with all forest beasts. Forestlings also are masterful in Fae magics, but are much more benevolent with them. Forestlings like to help villages, spreading fertility to crops, healing the sick, and bringing back lost children, often for very little in return. Forestlings tend to move away when villages become more civilized or overcrowded for their tastes, and will just move onto other villages or go into the deep forests. Forestlings are natural enemies to many forms of hostile Fae, but there are rare instances of them acting as ambassadors between the nations of the world and the 'kingdoms of the forests'.
Hermani (Fae)
Hermani are a swamp Fae which are known to specifically dwell in the northern marshes of Karlemgrad, often referred to as 'Marsh Witches' or as 'Swamplings'. Hermani are solitary higher Fae which dwell in swamps and marshlands, resembling without their heavy 'garments' as bloated humanoid men with fishy features, but are 'connected' to a variety of marshland plants. They have a large shell of reeds and swamp grass on their backs, and its very common of them to lean on staves, which they will often falsely claim holds their powers. Hermani are, like all Fae, aggressively protective of their swamplands, often hiding in the marshlands themselves and only appearing to animals and humans in needs, but will not blink an eye to also drown those they dislike. Hermani often 'rule' individual marshlands at a time, and are immensely helpful to those who ask them for directions, but will unleash all manner of curses, magic, and hydromancery on those who defile their marshlands. Often the best ways to deal with (and usually the only way to deal with) Hermani is to steal their staves and move them to new Marshlands, for often killing them is difficult as they can 'swim' in ultra shallow parts of the marsh and appear anywhere in it.
Island Hopper (Dragon)
Island Hoppers are medium sized dragons which dwell on the Beast Isles and in the southern mountains, being blue drakes which hunt large sea beasts such as sharks and sometimes whales. Island Hoppers are very aggressive hunters, but often tend to leave smaller prey alone and do not spit fire. Instead, Island Hoppers inject venom into their prey which quickly dissolves their insides and allows them easier access to kill. Island Hoppers are considered a menace for ships, since they sometimes mistake smaller fishing ships for whales and sharks, which is why the Otum try to hunt them and remove them.
Rockback (Dragon)
Rockbacks are huge winged dragoned which dwell in the northern Jolfan mountains, such as in the top of peaks, being huge and dangerous beyond measure, but are also highly passive beasts. Every 90 years, they awake from a long slumber and journey out to either eat or mate, and return to their mountain caves to rest. They usually torment the sheep herders before disappearing back into their caves. Rockbacks are normally yellow scaled and breath a noxious fiery napalm at their opponent. Rockbacks are often named for their rocky fin on their back and their tough leathery skin. Being near biologically immortal, and also highly solitary, they often are not much of a nuisance or a threat to most except for northern goat herders who despise and fear them.
Coalback (Dragon)
Coalbacks are medium sized black drakes which dwell in Karlemgrad's mountains, and are a common beast which is hunted by the Karoe. Coalbacks normally hunt dear in a pack of three, and sometimes torment undefended human villages. They typically are fairly thin and breath a toxic fume, covering themselves and making it difficult for their prey to quickly react to them. Coalbacks are a danger to Karlemgrad, which is why its warriors delight in hunting them so much. Coalbacks groups tend to stick togeather and nest in cave bunkers in large masses, these nesting ground becoming a infestation. Coalbacks regularly do this to keep humans away from their nests, especially the eternally brave Karoe Legedari who sometimes go on suicide missions into the caves to destroy the nesting grounds.
Longtail (Dragon)
Longtails are small woodland and hillside drakes which live near settlements, and to their name, are identifiable by their very long tails. As small dragons, they are pack hunters and live in smaller borrows, rarely flying in fear of larger predators and lack a means to produce a fire or poison, uncharacteristic of their other Jolfan Dragon cousins. They typically have short antlers on their heads and are covered more in a mixture of slimy scales, resembling very close to a rough salamander hide. Naturally very ugly to look at, they often hunt for cattle and horses, and are considered more of nuisance then a monster since they fear humans. However, if cornered, Longtails will defend themselves and will lash out quickly, but more so to get away and retreat back to the safety of their nests.
Souden Greenback (Dragon)
The Souden Greenback is a rare creature, and is often ill seen, mostly because the Souden and Fae in their forests had hunted them, destroyed their nests, and slaughtered their young. It isn't hard to say why they do this either. Greenbacks are stubborn and poisonous creatures whos hides emit a toxic ooze which kills plant life and warms the dragon while it sleeps. Greenbacks are medium sized dragons, preferring woodland areas, often marking their territory by felling trees. They tend to have salamander shaped head and have a small array of feathers on their tails. Greenbacks tend to hunt Faen and occasionally do battle with Wendigos from time to time. Greenbacks who travel near human settlements prefer to hunt humans rather then cattle, which is why they are often killed quickly.
Highland Thumper(Dragon)
Highland Thumpers are large, oppressive, rare dragons which dwell specifically in a niche territory in Upper Jolfa, between the mountains and forests on a couple of elongated hills. Thumpers have short wings and do not fly for very long, instead preferring to glide to a target. Their main characteristic is that they use their weight and tail to do damage, having a highly spiked tail and thick scales which make them one of the most heavily armored dragons in Jolfa. Thumpers are highly dangerous and aggressive dragons which do not like any form of life near their nests, and will openly attack any creature which dares gets close to them. Thumpers will sometimes enter the settlements in Jolfa to raid for cattle, or to kill and eat other dragons, and cause a unholy amount of damage through their survival tactics and end up destroying large wooden and stone structures in their way. Besides being deeply territorial, they are known to have complicated relationship with Fae, as their movements have been known to flatten and ruin forests.
Hackler(Dragon)
Hacklers, often sometimes referred to as 'laughing demons', 'Hecklers', and 'wind spirits' by locals, are large lupine beasts which live in the deep woods. Have the look of rabbits, but have a rat's teeth and claws, with moose-like antlers. Hacklers tend to range in sizes of a man to a small house. The more terrifying issues with Hacklers is that they can run very fast, which when mixed in with their strength, make them horrifying foes. Hacklers are usually solitary and are also incredibly rare, almost as common to eat their own kin as much as hunt another. Hacklers are not afraid of human settlement, and are often man hunters themselves, having no issues hunting human children and lone travelers. Hacklers get their name from their loud shrieking 'laugh' which can echo loudly for over a mile, often to communicate with fellow Hacklers.
Fisher(Dragon)
Fishers are large primordial reptiles which dwell in Jollas's marshlands and in many parts of the Beast Isles as a nomadic predator. Fishers resemble large upward reptiles with long bodies, having a large fin across their back, and a massive thin snout. Fishers have short arms, normally used mostly to grapple onto a larger creature or to push things a short distance. Fishers are semi-aquatic and are far greater swimmers then runners, but regardless of terrain their bite and strength is not to be trifled with. Fishers, despite their huge size, are also incredibly passive creatures, willfully allowing smaller animals to camp near them. Fishers avoid settlements, but do become aggressive to any fool who tries to torment their nests.
Millings(Dragon)
Millings are small dragons, very small which are about the size of dogs, and dwell primarily in rural areas where there is plentiful waste and food. Comparable to raccoons, Millings are green dragons wings attached to their arms, and tend to glide from place to place. Draconic in nature, Millings can breath a small flame often only used to char their meat or to help build nests. Millings are very dangerous pests, very much capable of overwhelming a larger foe with sheer numbers, and have no issues hunting children and elders. Millings are named so due to their favored habitat, Mills and granaries. Millings are often a common dragon, but are often only found in certain mountainous areas, and in the wild tend to gravitate towards the deeper forests where other dragon subtypes live, supposedly being scavengers.
Revenant (Undead)
Revenants are a undead phenomena which appears in Jollas very regularly. Normally, if a person dies of betrayal or with intense hatred, they can raise themselves from the dead and will not die till they are satisfied. Revenants can 'regenerate' their bodies to a limited degree endlessly, and are set on killing a person until they are dead. Revenants are ritualistic undead, which means only a ritual can drive them away, such as either fulfilling their deed for them or by granting them a sacrifice twice the life of their own. Out of fear for Revenants, most army officers will burn their dead or try to bury the dead of their enemies peacefully. It is unknown why Revenants spring to life from time to time in Jollas, but only Beastfolk seem to be unaffected by it.
Forest Wraith (Undead)
Forest Wraiths are unique necromantic beings, normally made by both Wendigos and Leshari from the corpses of knights they slew. Forest Wraiths are brought back to life by these Fae to serve as guardians for their groves, spectral beings bound to their weapons and armor and covered in sticks, grass, and their bones. Forest Wraiths act as guardians, but as cursed beings, that guardianship acts as a double edged sword. These constructs can often turn on their masters or even refuse to obey, even killing their masters and becoming 'rogue'. Forest Wraiths are often infused with magical powers, such as abilities to control wind and foilage, with some more powerful creature capable of conjuring complex curses and spells. Burrows of druids, especially beastfolk druids, tend to be guarded by some of the more powerful and sentient forest wraiths.
Mourner (Undead)
A mourner is very much a similar cursed being like a Revenant, but is entirely spectral. Mourners are born from the deathly emotions of dead women who are slain during a time of joy, or were killed during great sorrow, their spectral bodies haunting forests and fields. They 'feed' off negative emotions and fright, usually resembling shriveled up corpses who are constantly weeping. Mourners are stationary evils, unlike Revenants which travel, and haunt the last place they died or some important object. Mourners tend be horrifically dangerous due to the fact their mourning raises the dead, can cause disastrous blights, and summon demons and Fae to them, especially creatures such as Wendigos who bind the spirits to their will. Mourners are a ritualistic undead, requiring that their bodies to be burned or to be appeased with special sacrifices.
Haunt (Undead)
Of the most dangerous undead in Jolfan, none is more terrible then Haunts. Haunts are spectral undead beings, normally brought back from the soul of persons who died awful, violent, and horrific deaths and had deserved it. Haunts can only be seen as shadows, and cannot exist in the light of a flame, thus truly only being invisible during moonlit nights. Haunts latch onto victims, or even whole families, tormenting them with visions, nightmares, and smaller frights. This somehow empowers the Haunt, which can eventually move onto manifesting physical movement and possession, killing it's victims with self infliction or violent sundering of the place they haunt. The various ways to kill the haunt without resorting to magic is usually visiting the cadaver which spawned it and granting it's final wishes.
Koseam (Undead)
Koseam are a unique type of undead, being born of various spirits. Koseam are born with the deaths of many mages who's collective violent deaths create a twist creature which springs up from their bones and blood known as the Koseam, often implied to be born of a ritualistic magic found in dark magic tomes. Koseam resemble elderly shriveled men which are on the verge of decaying, and command advance forms of necromancery and black magic at their beck and call. Koseam summon undead and chain various monsters with magical fetters to guard it's keep. Koseam then plan out long and complex plans to avenge the deaths which had given it life, and once complete, the Koseam and it's dark magic ceases to exist. The only other way to get rid of a Koseam is to find it's 'soul box', typically in the form of a severed finger or toe which when destroyed also destroys the Koseam. Koseam like to bind souls to their will, and since they themselves are soulless, they hunt down demonic beings to chain both physically and spiritually to their will to complete their tasks.
Wrecked (Undead)
Wrecked are an occasional undead being which dwells solely near coasts, specifically in places where the victims have drowned due to some form of murder, and have in a sense become a much more deadly form of revenant. Wrecked are constantly surrounded in a thick fog or mist wherever they tread, always rotting and leaking out sea water from their bodies. Wrecked often seek vengeance for their murders, but are entirely hostile to all beings they come across. Wrecked seek to kill and rip apart their murderers with all due haste, but can physically enter a place which is dry, thus they will only move during rain storms or places where their is water. They are often difficult to take care of due to not only moving in their generated fog, their layers tend to be sunken ships or some form of deep water. To appease and remove a Wrecked is often to either bring their murderers to them, or to drag them to a dry place and burn them.
Hosts (Undead)
One of the more disturbing undead abominations which transverse Jollas, Hosts are marshland horrors which are born of beings who had died rather specifically in a wetland, but under the circumstance they had been murdered in a very foul mood and were left unburied. What arises from these swamps are vengeful corpses which enthrall a horde of insects which dwell within them and haunt the swamps, killing Fae and driving out anything that comes into it. Hosts attack with vast swarms of biting insects, and tend to turn the bodies of those they kill into insect nests which create a protective barrier in the swamp for them. Hosts are entirely hostile, and require physical force to destroy them utterly. Hosts are incredibly rare, mostly due to their hotheaded hostility, being natural enemies to almost all forms of Fae, especially the Hermani.
Necrophage (Undead)
Necrophages are products of those who had starved to death in life, or turned to cannibalism and died due to their hunger. Necrophages are born from slow transformation, becoming something so inhuman and ceaselessly hungery. Necrophages haunt graveyards, battlefields, and places where death is commonplace, eating dead bodies and attacking those who dare get close. Most Necrophages are hostile, but some retain parts of their humanity in early phases long enough to be entirely passive. Necrophages often appear after battles had taken place, and are especially drawn to places where there are mounds of corpses. Necrophages can only be put down with physical force, but can also be driven away by family members which a Necrophage will refuse to attack.
Painted (Undead)
Painted are rare undead beings, normally born of advanced necromancery, which dwell in paintings, murals, and various forms of craftsmanship. Painted were once vain beings who in life were cruel, but in death lost their fame and fortunes due to dark circumstances. These emotional troubles creates Painted, being spectral ghosts and wraiths which heavily resemble their media homes. Painted torment the owners of their artifacts, causing dismay, death, and general misery until sold to new owners, or destroyed. Due to their existence often being very subtle, it is difficult to find them in time before they do considerable harm. Painted tend to be incredibly jealous and vain, and take special hatred towards the fat and ugly, but will often ignore, corrupt, or deceive those they find attractive.
Imp (Demon)
Imps, also known as Spawn, are minor demons which are summoned by clumsy wizards looking for guardians. Imps are small black or reddish creatures which are jittery and have large horns, but cause ceaseless mischief. As demons, they cannot enter holy places and disintegrate at the touch of light imbued things, but Imps are unnaturally strong creatures despite their size who are ordered to guard objects with intense jealousy. When someone threatens the object they are ordered to guard, they tear the person apart and eat their remains. Imps can only be removed if the mage who summoned them unsummons them, or if the Imp horde is by ritual granted the object they were guarding and pull it back into the abyss from whence they came.
Black Hound (Demon)
Black Hounds are emotion demons, feeding on negative emotions and devouring those who produce them. Black Hounds are normally summoned much like most demons, to guard the treasures of warlocks who summon them. Being a bit more effective then Imps, Black Hounds are harder to control, requiring magical fetters to keep them in line, or they would otherwise tear their summoner apart. Black Hounds normally break free and roam the highways and deep forests, chasing those who have deep regrets and eating them. Black Hounds tend to go in packs, but no one really knows what they look like, as to the human eye they look like blackish mutts, but up close they have reddish eyes, spikey hides, and gnashing fangs. Black Hounds will sometimes 'grow' their pact by kidnapping their prey and forcing them into their dens where their presence and feeding them human flesh slowly turn them into a new Black Hound over time.
Dealer (Demon)
Dealers, also known as Crossroad Demons, are powerful demonic entities and are the patrons of witches and dark magic users in Jollas, who taught mages how to summon imps and black hounds. Dealers are predatory demons who have powerful abilities, feasting on the torment of souls. They look human by all means, their true forms vary, but they universally are connected to contracts and deals. Dealers give wishes in return for person's soul, but purposefully corrupt the wishes in the demon's favor. When the demon collects, it steals the soul from their body via their contract ritual. Dealers rarely if ever show their chests, due to the fact as a morbid curiosity, all those who make deals with them have their heads added to them, a morbid collection of severed heads which make ups it's chest. What it does with the souls of others is anyone's guess.
Arconic (Demon)
Also referred to as Lords of Flies, Arconics are powerful, rare, and difficult to remove demonic entities on par with Dealers in terms of both magical skill and cruelty. Arconics come in a variety of forms, but universally can command common house flies and horse flies at their back and call, and typically they themselves are possessing a body of sorts to disguise themselves. Arconics tend to tempt sentient creatures to cannibalism, corruption, and acts of cruelty which they 'feed' upon rather then human souls. Arconics tend to 'follow' certain families and village communities, and can only be truly chased off through moral decency overcoming their own corruption. Fighting Arconics is immensely difficult, due to their wide varieties of magic which they wields, and their 'souls' tend to inhabit a swarm of flies which they tend to escape in. Arconics deeply fear powerful Fae, since while they wish to live in forest lairs, they are often bested by forest spirits rather easily, and thus tend to make lairs in ruins being both near and far from settlements.
Psoglavs (Demon)
Psoglavs may resemble Beastfolk initially in appearance, but are in fact a demonic creature. Psoglavs are violent beasts which feed off the flesh of sentient creatures, having the head of a wolf, the body of a man, and the feet of a horse. Psoglavs tend to capture to toy with their prey, even taking on some sentient creatures as slaves to torment until they bore of them and make them their next meal. Psoglavs are typically bound demons being in the service of another more powerful demon, acting as enforcers of sorts, capable of wielding weapons and donning armor. Psoglavs are fairly strong, but aren't exactly as invulnerable as they will often claim. Psoglavs are incredibly prideful and arrogant creatures, who regularly will proclaim their immortality but are very much as mortal as any other.
Kampandi (Demon)
Kampandi are higher demons which resemble shaggy goatmen with a humanoid face but a parasite like mouth. Kampandi only appear during winter months, listening in on villagers who complain about moral indecency. Those who act indecent they often steal, binding them in iron chains, and dragging them off to their lairs where they are boiled alive in soup. Kampandi are very direct with their magic, and can curse others with relative ease. Prisoners of a Kampandi who beg successfully for their lives are soulbound to them, often helping them kidnap others in exchange for their own lives. Kampandi are not as difficult to kill as other higher demons, but are immensely strong, fast, and magical. Unlike other demons who can be hostile to most settlements and view humanoids with disdain, Kampandi tend to be highly protective of those they haunt, often being heavy handed rivals to Arconi, Dealers, and Damners.
Colorful (Demon)
Of all the demons, Colorfuls are perhaps one of the most rare if not most dangerous demons to be faced. Colorfuls disguise themselves as common travelers, their only identifying features being the colors of their cloths being off putting. In reality, their true forms resemble a odd mixture of unnatural colors, a oozing mass which they add to the water supply of the villages they haunt. Over time, the land in the village dies, and the townspeople go mad, eventually disintegrating slowly due to the oozing colors and coming under the unnatural command of the demons. Colorfuls like to toy with their victims, and are difficult to kill. They eventually feed on the corpses of the village or hamlet for years at a time, until its time to move onto the next town. Colorfuls can be killed usually by burying them so deep that they suffocate and become stone, or by drowning them in deep water. Colorfuls are often hostile to other demons who rely on humans to 'survive', and care very little in terms of souls, feeding instead off the psychological damage of their presence.
Pitlord (Demon)
Pitlords are large physical demons which resemble fat centaurs with dragon like features. Pitlords live in pits, as the name suggests, and heat up their lairs to make it more comfortable. Pitlords are physically large monsters and despise the presence of others, but cannot avoid human contact for which they must feed from. Pitlords steal humans and eat them slowly within their layers, but also feast upon larger dragon creatures. Pitlords often like to make morbid art from their victims, and placing it across their layer and territory, but will avoid the persecution of humanoids until it either finds a protective master or gathers a demonic host. Pitlords are in their nature very cowardly, and avoid dangerous situations whenever possible, in spite of their size and strength.
Damner (Demon)
Damners are summoned demons, which can only be summoned and are used solely as a last case scenario by the vengeful. Damners are invisible, and come in a variety of forms, but universally are humanoid in some way and fully sentient. Damners make pacts with their summoners, allowing the Damner to tear apart their summoner and claim their soul, but in return, the Damner will haunt their enemy and drive them to insanity and eventually kill them. Damners are difficult to destroy, being a higher demonic entity, and are said to be feared by even Dealers and Arconi. Damners, in their attempts to kill their target, will often try to corrupt them and steal their souls, often wasting time and giving would be hunters valuable days to find a way to destroy them. Damners can only be fully removed by calling forth their true demonic name and have the target null their contract.
Hag (Cursed)
Hags are, or well were, magic users who in their quest for immortality had been deeply cursed by a demon, usually a dealer or a Arconic, with a vanity stripping curse. The true form of a Hag varies, but they are hideous beyond comparison, usually having a mixture of animal and decaying features with sickly green eyes and skin. Hags however tend to keep up an illusion of a younger form, which is only sustained by eating human flesh, and only human flesh. This lasts until the fall and winter season usually. Hags who go too long without devouring the flesh of men eventually go insane, and eventually grow use to their ugly forms and become prey to demons who bind them to their wills. Hags are typically masters in most forms of dark magic and curses, but are also very learned in which they can remove them via powerful (and morbid) rituals.
Vaym (Cursed)
A Vaym is a vampiric beast in Jollas which hunts in most major Jollas cities and larger settlements. Vaym are a cursed creature, in which the cursed being must often drink blood in order to survive. Vaym degenerate over time into ghoulish beings, but gain an array of abilities such as the ability to polymorph into a horde of rats, or to teleport a short distance. Vaym will burst into flames in flames in sunlight, and are mortally sickened upon entering consecrated grounds of Tresist temples. The curse to create a Vaym is normally a very difficult ritual, requiring rare herbs and certain forms of blood for the ritual. Vaym can in fact have children, in which most Vaym tend to spawn from, but the process is rare and usually takes place before the ghoulish transformations. Vaym curses are only lifted either through the death of the Vaym through burning it or stabbing it in the heart, or by Vaym drinking the blood of the one who cursed it.
Moonmorph (Cursed)
Moonmorphs are beings who were cursed to transform in half-animals during the presence of a full moon. During the day and nights without a full moon, Moonmorphs are normal cretans who usually go unaware they are monsters, but during full moons they become rabid animals. Most Moonmorphs become lupine animals such as dogs, wolves, or even a human-wolf mix which is often exceedingly rare. However what is universal is that they become hostile and attack anything during the night, are nearly immune to non-magical weapons, and are exceedingly fast. Moonmorphs seem very ritual bound, being unable to enter holy places during their form, or at least unwilling. Silver and bronze weapons seem to literally burn their flesh on touch during their form as well. Moonmorphs tend to also have another unfortunate issue; while their main body can die, their cursed form cannot, and can continue as a Moonmorph for years after their death, in which only after the body is in ashes does the curse fully stop. If a Moonmorph dies in it's animal form, the body which it inhabited dies as well. There are no cures known to remove the curse, usually only solved in death and the burning of the body, or killing it in it's Moonmorph form.
Talkers (Cursed)
Talkers are victims of extremely advanced polymorphy, typically only ever performed on humans and races close to being human. Typically a trade secret of Hags and powerful wizards, Talkers are sentient animals or Beastfolk who at one time were human. Talkers hold their old memories and, as their name suggests, can speak. Most Talkers can walk upright, although a bit awkwardly (or in some cases not at all). Talker curses are immensely difficult to remove, and for most commoners it isn't worth the price. Talkers live very solitary lives, very likely never to remove their curse, typically moving into the Jollas Beastfolk communities for some comfort. Making the curse often requires blood and rare magical herbs, and the flesh of a Fae creature which is made into a hot mixture. Victims are put into this mixture along with a animal or Beastfolk and what comes out are Talkers. Talker curses are removed through a similar way, but it requires twice the blood, twice the herbs, and twice the number of dead (and powerful) fae (or their blessings) for the curse to be removed.
Unholy (Cursed)
Unholy are strange cursed beings, being born with the curse via a demon. Unholy are technically half-demons, or at least the offspring of Dreamers with mortal women. Unholy have a number of benefits, being gifted with having a strong sense for magic, being creative beyond their years, and having a far longer life then others. However, Unholy have a number of annoying quirks. Unholy cannot enter holy places, are prone to garnering a number of character flaws, cannot see themselves in a mirror, or are they able to enter the private property of others until they are specifically invited in. Unholy thus have to keep up heavily social facade to keep themselves alive in Jollas, but unlike other monstrous being who can be bound to powerful demons, the Unholy are immune. Unholy in fact have incredible autonomy from their creators, and can be cursed of their curse by either marrying or through extreme holy rituals which have a chance to kill them. Unholy also can become demons such as Dealers and Arconics if another mortal beings gives their soul to them via a contract, triggering their ascension into demonhood.
Reminder (Cursed)
The Reminder curse is a fairly annoying curse for those who have died, a curse which forces the person who died to have the physical weight of their regrets and sins shackled to them in death, making them unable to go into the afterlife. Reminders toil in chains for all eternity until, but have a catch, in which they can convince others to take on their chains for them via a contract. Reminders can eventually be freed of their chains by putting their chains onto others, which causes them to be literally crushed and suffocated to death and their ghosts are shackled and become new Reminders. In order to fully, and truly, remove the curse, a Reminder's descendent or heir has to be put into physical chains or a form of bondage.
Groundhog (Cursed)
Groundhogs are cursed travelers who repeat highly specific niche moments and are trapped their forever until freed of it. Typically being unlucky travelers, Groundhogs are stuck in a perpetual moment and often remain unaware for hundreds of years. Groundhogs do not need to eat, sleep, or even go to the bathroom, as they live in a single moment in time forever until they are freed of their curse. Groundhogs only appear briefly along the places the curse was put on them, and then disappearing back to their original starting point. Groundhogs are freed of their curse if the one who cursed them releases them from their curse or through expensive rituals. Groundhogs typically are made when travelers piss off a Fae creature or a demon, but the curse to make them is known also by most Jolfan mages who use it as a commonplace binding spell.
Returned (Cursed)
When someone dies, but had died fairly young and deeply depressed or simply off put by life, there is a small chance they may come back as the Returned. Returned are not fully undead, but they are very close, having died at some point but then springing back to life during moonless nights to haunt their previous job offices, homes, and favored places. When the sun comes close to reappearing, Returned go back to their graves until the next moonless night. Returned are about as hostile as the person they once were, but generally, most live as fairly sentient and barely self aware creatures which lack any form of rot. When Returned do go back to their graves, their bodies rapidly decay, but become whole again when they walk into the world again. Returned only disappear permanently by usually fulfilling their last tasks or by finding a way to get them to have fun, which counteracts and drops the curse.
Eternal (Cursed)
The Eternal are unfortunate souls who had been cursed to become eternal servants, normally through devious magically binding contracts or some form of dark magic trickery. Eternals are literal immortals, but their curse forbids them from performing any form of violence, and end up always obeying the word of a chosen master. Eternals can cease to exist at the whim of their masters, and must obey them even with the strangest commands. Autonomy does not exist for Eternals, and in fact are incapable of most forms of true free will. Eternals, in order to cure themselves, need to find a way for their masters to dismiss them. Eternals are often bound to singular objects, which when activated can pop them back into existence.